Lothbury--Its Former Inhabitants--St. Margaret's Church--Tokenhouse Yard--Origin of the Name--Farthings and Tokens--Silver Halfpence and Pennies--Queen Anne's Farthings--Sir William Petty--Defoe's Account of the Plague in Tokenhouse Yard 513 CHAPTER XLV. THROGMORTON STREET.--THE DRAPERS' COMPANY. Halls of the Drapers' Company--Throgmorton Street and its many Fair Houses--Drapers and Wool Merchants--The Drapers in Olden Times--Milborne's Charity--Dress and Livery--Election Dinner of the Drapers' Company--A Draper's Funeral--Ordinances and Pensions--Fifty-three Draper Mayors--Pageants and Processions of the Drapers--Charters--Details of the present Drapers' Hall--Arms of the Drapers' Company 515 CHAPTER XLVI. BARTHOLOMEW LANE AND LOMBARD STREET. George Robins--His Sale of the Lease of the Olympic--St. Bartholomew's Church--The Lombards and Lombard Street--William de la Pole--Gresham--The Post Office, Lombard Street--Alexander Pope's Father in Plough Court--Lombard Street Tributaries--St. Mary Woolnoth--St. Clement's--Dr. Benjamin Stone--Discovery of Roman Remains--St. Mary Abchurch 522 CHAPTER XLVII. THREADNEEDLE STREET. The Centre of Roman London--St. Benet Fink--The Monks of St. Anthony--The Merchant Taylors--Stow, Antiquary and Tailor--A Magnificent Roll--The Good Deeds of the Merchant Taylors--The Old and the Modern Merchant Taylors' Hall--"Concordia parvae res crescunt"--Henry VII. enrolled as a Member of the Taylors' Company--A Cavalcade of Archers--The Hall of Commerce in Threadneedle Street--A Painful Reminiscence--The Baltic Coffee-house--St. Anthony's School--The North and South American Coffee-house--The South Sea House--History of the South Sea Bubble--Bubble Companies of the Period--Singular Infatuation of the Public--Bursting of the Bubble--Parliamentary Inquiry into the Company's Affairs--Punishment of the Chief Delinquents--Restoration of Public Credit--The Poets during the Excitement--Charles Lamb's Reverie 531 CHAPTER XLVIII. CANNON STREET. London Stone and Jack Cade--Southwark Bridge--Old City Churches--The Salters' Company's Hall, and the Salters' Company's History--Oxford House--Salters' Banquets--Salters' Hall Chapel--A Mysterious Murder in Cannon Street--St. Martin Orgar--King William's Statue--Cannon Street Station 544 CHAPTER XLIX. CANNON STREET TRIBUTARIES AND EASTCHEAP.